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Convolvulus deserti

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Convolvulus deserti Hochst. & Steud. ex Steud. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] Convolvulus prostratus Forssk. [family CONVOLVULACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • convolvulus deserti
  • Convolvulus microphyllus
  • Convolvulus deserti
  • Convolvulus prostratus
  • Convolvulus bornmuelleri

Flora

Entry for CONVOLVULUS Deserti Hochst. & Steud. [family CONVOLVULACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol IV, Part 2, page 62, (1905) Author: (By J. G. Baker and A. B. Rendle.)
Names
CONVOLVULUS Deserti Hochst. & Steud. [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in Herb. Un. Itin. 783; Steud. Nom. ed. 2, i. 408, name only. Suffruticose.
CONVOLVULUS microphyllus Choisy [family CONVOLVULACEAE], in DC. Prodr. ix. 402, partly.
Information
Stems slender, terete, spreading, somewhat sparsely hairy, with spreading or adpressed hairs. Leaves linear-oblong with tapering base to linear-spathulate, subsessile, the lower reaching 1 3/4 in. long in the African specimen, usually shorter, blunt, adpressed, hairy on both surfaces, midrib prominent beneath. Flowers borne in the leaf-axils along the whole length of the stems. Peduncles slender, hairy like the stem, about 6 lin. long in the African plant and bearing 1 or 2 closely aggregated flowers. Bracts narrow, linear, about 3 lin. long, bearing (like the sepals) ad-pressed and spreading pale brownish hairs. Sepals ovate, coriaceous below with acuminate green herbaceous tips, subequal, 3 lin. long. Corolla funnel-shaped, 7 lin. long in the African plant, pallid with darker pubescent midpetaline areas.
Distribution
Nubia Nile Land Sea-coast to between 3000 and 4000 ft., Bent!
Distribution (external)
Arabia
Notes
The African specimen consists of a small young plant with a few spreading stems, the main one reaching 6 in. long.

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